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concupiscible

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con·cu·pis·ci·ble  (kn-kyp-s-bl)
adj.
Driven by or filled with strong sexual desire; concupiscent.


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Firstly, love is a basic emotion of the concupiscible appetite, which is a sensitive appetite that man has in common with non-rational animals.
Some representative interpretations follow: Venus and Adonis portrays Venus as embodying the concupiscible appetites in her advances to Adonis and the irascible appetites in her responses to his death.
 
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